I Quotes
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“I tell myself that I want to live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven't arisen. But what if that's not true? What if I'm the one who can't let myself be happy? Because I'm scared, or I prefer to wallow in self-pity, or I don't believe I deserve good things, or some other reason. Whenever something good happens to me I always find myself thinking: I wonder how long it will be until this turns out badly. And I almost want the worst to happen sooner, sooner rather than later, and if possibile straight away, so at least I don't have to feel anxious about it anymore.”
Source: Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.”
Source: The Help
“I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.”
“I tell myself this doesn't mean anything. I tell myself what I told Nikolai: she's just my plaything. I'm in control.
But my heartbeat is strumming a different song. And it sounds like a warning.
It's saying ...
You're fucked.”
Source: Midnight Purgatory
“I tell myself time heals. It really does.”
“I tell myself--
tomorrow
is always a hopeful day
and the world
runs on
hope.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.”
Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent
“I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.”
“I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.”
Source: The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States ... December 18 and 19, 1860
“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”
Source: Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians
“I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.”
“I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.”
“I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.”
“I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at SNL, I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.”
“I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.”
“I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.”
“I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.”
“I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.”
“I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all.”
“I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for.”
“I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.”
“I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.”
“I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.”
“I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.”
“I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.”
“I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.”
“I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'”
“I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.”
“I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.”
“I tell people my breasts were made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.”
“I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!”
“I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.”
“I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.”
“I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.”
“I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.”
“I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.”
“I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.”
“I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.”
“I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.”
“I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.”
“I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.”
“I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.”
“I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.”
“I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!”
“I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.”
“I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.”
“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
“I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.”
“I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.”
“I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.”